Gerhard Kallmann

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Gerhard Michael Kallmann (born February 13, 1915 in Berlin ; † June 19, 2012 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American architect .

Life

Gerhard Michael Kallmann was the son of Theodor and Olga Jarecki Kallmann. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the family was persecuted and had to emigrate to Great Britain in 1937 . Kallmann was able to study there at the Architectural Association School of Architecture . In 1948 the family emigrated to the USA , where Kallmann taught at the Chicago Institute of Design from 1949 . From 1954 he was an assistant professor at Columbia University . In the early 1960s, Kallmann had long been a professor and, together with his former student Michael McKinnell, won a public tender for the design of the new Boston City Hall against well-known architects. The building was built in 1968. Shortly after winning, he moved to Boston in 1962, where he founded his architecture firm Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles .

His office was later renamed Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood . He designed entire campuses for the University of California , isolated buildings for Ohio State University and Brandeis University . The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague was built to his design, as was the US embassy in Bangkok . In 1985 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the building of which had also been designed by Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood .

Designed buildings

  • Headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 588. See also the sister Marlies Kallmann Danziger, ibid , P. 203

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gerhard Kallmann, Architect, Is Dead at 97 , nytimes.com
  2. ↑ Kriston Capps: Boston City Hall Designer Gerhard Kallmann This ( en ) In: Architect Magazine . July 19, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kallmann, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kallmann, Gerhard Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2012
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts, United States